Home 9 version refuses to create Secure Zone on any drive

Brand new laptop, 200gb free, ext drive, 175 gb free, lots of space. Installed home09 version tonight and made the backup, made the bootable DVD, no problem. But it will no secure zone: it says, "cannot create a secure zone on the selected drive'.

I tried c, d, and the eternal. I read this secure zone is essential for safety, but it refuses with no explanation.

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Great link, thanks, but it didn't work. Tried about 5 times, and I know it was in admin mode because it said that it would run on reboot.

But it didn't. Went straight to Windows.

I tried again on the D > data drive, and this time it asked to dismount the drive for chkdsk. I clicked Y and it ran.

Steps 1-4 went perfectly, no errors, but step 5 was checking free space. I let it run several minutes and then paid more attention to the number of digits displayed. It had checked about 500k after several minutes, but there are 35M clusters to check. Quick math said this would run a very long time!

Willing to do that, but really wanted the acronis secure zone on the C drive.

thanks, but of course my new laptop has only the 'scorched earth' recovery DVD. HOwer, I did make an acronis bootable
DVD, and somebody noted [some thread] that I might be able to invoke the secure zone after booting to that one.

I moved the ext to all four USB ports with same results. It can be "seen" in every Acronis menu, except secure zone. I took out the zip drive and no problme at all--made another full backup to the ext drive.

Well, it's half resolved. After hours of putzing around, it finally allows me to create a secure zone on D, and it tries. Upon reboot, it goes through a lot of impressive partitioning, then finally when done it reboots again.

Go to ATI menu, and it says, no secure zone. I have repeated this four times and given up for now.

One more Q: it actually did partition a hidden section which i cannot see, so assume it's the secure zone. Not having any idea how large to make it, I set for 80Gb, thinking that the backups would go there.

But alas, those backjups are in the visibile partioin. So, what goes into the secure zone and how large should it be?

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